AND

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

FIFTY-NINTH

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

OF THE,

STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Legian ar

SESSION BEGUN AT TRENTON, ON THE TWENTY-THIRD DAY OF CUTORER,
ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOUR.

BEING THE FIRST SITTING.N

1834-57

FREEHOLD, N. J.

PRINTED BY BERNARD CONNOLLY.

Gift of SG. Ban

3). Sew Breenswich, N

(59th, 61st, 62d, 64th, 65th, 67th.)

LIST OF MEMBERS

OF THE

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Cumberland,
Cape May,

The Honorable CHRISTIAN C. ZABRISKIE.

OLIVER S. HALSTEAD.

WILLIAM MONRO.

SAMUEL PRICE.

CHARLES SITGREAVES.

NATHANIEL SAXTON.
JAMES S. Green.
ANDREW SNOWHILL.
JEHU PATTERSON.
JAMES NEWBOLD.
JOHN W. MICKLE.
WILLIAM F. REEVE.
DAVID REEVES.
JEREMIAH LEaming.

OF THE

59TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

OF THE

STATE OF NEW JERSEY.

BERGEN.

John F. Hopper, Abraham Lydecker, Peter I. Ackerman.

ESSEX.

Asa Whitehead, Gideon Ross, John J. Bryant, Andrew Parsons, Jonas Smith.

MORRIS.

Joseph Dickerson, Jr., Henry Hilliard, Thomas Muir, Silas Lindsley.

SUSSEX.

Benjamin Hamilton, Joseph Greer, Joshua Shay.

WARREN.

Jacob Brotzman, George Flummerfelt, Henry Hankinson.

HUNTERDON.

William H. Sloan, Sutphin Garrison, William Marshall, John W. Kline, William M'Kee.

SOMERSET.

Cornelius L. Hardenbergh, William D. Stewart, John Brees.

MIDDLESEX.

Richard S. Field, Rolph M. Crowell, Henry Van Dyke, Elias Runyon.

MONMOUTH.

Daniel B. Ryall, Thomas G. Haight, Ananiah Gifford, William Burtis.

BURLINGTON.

Israel Biddle, Benjamin Fish, Amos Stiles, Thomas Page, M. D., Isaac Hilliard.

GLOUCESTER.

Joseph Rogers, Samuel B. Lippencott, William R. Cooper. John R. Scull.

SALEM.

Samuel Humphreys, Joseph Lippencott, Isaac Johnson, 2d.

CUMBERLAND.

Thomas E. Hunt, Isaac Newcomb, Ephrim H. Whitaker.

Richard Thomson.

CAPE MAY.

MINUTES

OF THE

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

59th GENERAL ASSEMBLY

OF THE

STATE OF NEW JERSEY.

TRENTON, OCTOBER 28, 1334.

THIS being the time and place appointed by law for the first meeting of the General Assembly of this State, the following persons, to wit:-John H. Hopper, Abraham Lydecker, Peter I. Ackerman, as representatives for the County of Bergen; Asa Whitehead, Gideon Ross, John J. Bryant, Andrew Parsons, Jonas Smith, as representatives for the county of Essex; Benjamin Ham Iton, Joseph Greer, Joshua Shay, as representatives for the county of Sussex; Joseph Dickerson, Jr., Henry Hilliard, Silas Lindsley, Thomas Muir, as representatives for the county of Morris; Jacob Brotzman, George Flummerfelt, Henry Harkinson, as representatives for the county of Warren; Cornelius L. Hardenberg, William D. Stewart, John Breese, as representatives for the county of Somerset; Richard S. Field, Rolph M. Crowell,